Category: writing
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Ogres in the Mist
All hail the wonderful Canadians and especially those involved with On Spec, the Alberta based spec fic magazine for they have published a story of mine! Behold the glorious cover. Details of how to acquire this, should you wish to, can be found on their site at: https://onspec.ca/2024/03/20/on-spec-127-is-released-into-the-wild/ My tale is one of a wee,…
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Sacrificial Gasoline
It’s a new story! I’m very pleased to report that my story, Sacrificial Gasoline, has appeared in this wonderful publication, New Maps. You can find them here New Maps showcases ‘de-industrial’ fiction and if you want more information on what that is, they have a great editorial all about it in the issue. Basically it’s…
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2020: The year of the pestilence
Hello all. I hope this strangest of years has been not too bad for you and that this finds you well. It’s been weird, tragic and befuddling for all so well done on getting through it best you can and fingers crossed for an improvement next year. It’s been odd for us all but for…
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2018: The Year of Distractions
Hello all and welcome to what was supposed to be an annual blog post, rounding up the year but, as it turns out, I’ve not posted anything since this time last year. Oops, I’ve been distracted. So, what have I been doing? First and foremost, I’ve had the joy of two stories being published. Just…
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A “gift” for Christmas
A very good reason why I should never be allowed on the internet is that it gives me stupid ideas. Even worse, ideas based on other people’s characters and so entirely unpublishable. Probably the worst for you is that this does not stop me from writing the things anyway and, by way of a Christmas…
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The Return of the Pulp-O-Mizer
It turns out that anthologies are like buses. You wait for ages and then two turn up at once. Today the TOC for Oomph got announced and so, by way of celebration, I’ve been farting around on the Pulp-O-Mizer site again. So, coming soon in Oomph is; and in Caledonia Dreamin’;
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Caledonia Dreamin’
Not posted here in a while due to mucking about with a novel length piece of nonsense and so not much happening. (Actually, I’ve been watching too much Doctor Who in the run up to the 50th anniversary but I like to fool myself I have a reason for not writing so much short fiction…
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Mud, mud, glorious mud
Well lummee! The purple patch is now looking like a small purple lawn as the fine people in charge of an anthology called Caledonia Dreamin have accepted my story. Excitingly, the last plan I heard featured launching the anthology at World Fantasy Con, which I will be at, so I may get the chance to…
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Stolen ideas
So, I have had an idea knocking round my head for years. Imagine a city as a train, thundering round the world. Then imagine how the class system would develop. Several years back I wrote a short story set on that train. It was suggested I might want to lengthen the story. So I turned…
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The Art of Cake Baking
Do you like cake? Then you should go to Unspoken Water right now and buy issue four. They have very kindly published a short by me on the subject of cake baking. I would tell you the title, but I have changed it so often I can’t remember what it is now. Sharon tells me…